Unfeleased Orson Wells movie to be released

[BikerDude]

Actually it's not the first to be rediscovered. The first titled, WAIT FOR IT....
"Too Much Johnson". I shit you not. It's short silent movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Much_Johnson

More of a real movie is "The Other Side of the Wind"
Started in 1971 and he spent the rest of his life editing it.
Never got released. It will be in the spring.
Stars John Huston and has the great Dennis Hopper in it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2813092/Orson-Welles-film-finally-released.html

[jgiffin]

Wow, the first unreleased film actually got some pretty good reviews. I'm kind of cringing at the idea of someone else finishing the second unreleased film. Welles had only edited about 75 minutes of it - and it took him 15 years to do THAT much. Seems to imply there were some problems stringing the thing together.

Still, this should be interesting. It's not everyday you get to see something new by a past master...well, unless you count all of Biggy and 2-Pac's posthumous stuff. Those dudes put out more stuff after catching lead than when they were walking the streets.

[BikerDude]

Wow, the first unreleased film actually got some pretty good reviews. I'm kind of cringing at the idea of someone else finishing the second unreleased film. Welles had only edited about 75 minutes of it - and it took him 15 years to do THAT much. Seems to imply there were some problems stringing the thing together.

Still, this should be interesting. It's not everyday you get to see something new by a past master...well, unless you count all of Biggy and 2-Pac's posthumous stuff. Those dudes put out more stuff after catching lead than when they were walking the streets.

I guess Welles had a very complicated way of editing a film.

The challenge now is to follow Welles?s unique style. ?He did some very complicated editing before it was taken away from him,? Mr. Bogdanovich said. ?I don?t even know if I can approximate that kind of cutting because it is very fragmented and idiosyncratic. All we can do is the best we can, using the script, his notes and what he has left.?